2023-12-20 15:13:00
With this new agreement, Brussels has heard the industrialists who asked not to have to undergo new constraints on thermal engines, while they are normally supposed to disappear from the continent by 2035.
Several large countries have also lobbied to avoid further tightening environmental objectives, first and foremost France and Italy, the second and third largest contributors to the European Union. Their objective was to preserve the automobile industry, which employs 14 million people in Europe.
Unsurprisingly, the Transport & Environment association had, as early as September, criticized the regulations as being “ a disaster for air quality. » For her, the European Union « puts the record profits of car manufacturers ahead of the health of citizens. »
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